If you work, what do you do for a living?

[laura1985]

Just wondering what everyone does for a living.

I have always wondered if I should go on bedrest once I get pregnant again. My career is very stressful and demanding. I am an investigator in Dallas for insurance companies in collateral recovery. Even when I am at home, my company cell rings and I am doing work from home as well :/ i am one of those crazy people who really loves their job, but I have always wondered if I just should have stayed at home when I was pregnant all those times before. I make decent money, but going on disability at work does pay but 60% of my income.

[loismwallace]

I'm a Office Assistant for a family owned, land surveying company. My job is rewarding and being family I was able to take off as long as I wanted, but I was ready to come back to work two months after my baby was born. I actually worked up until the day before I went into natural labor. I was scheduled to induce the day after she was born. I just can't stand to miss making that money.....lol Heck I need it for all the lace and frillys......

[Want2BeMama]

im a hairdresser...im up on my feet all day long...we dont really have maternity leave...we just take as long as we want...but we dont get paid for it..it ***** because i had to take some time off...being that my son was born premature...ive been off work since march...once you dont work you dont get paid..and you loose your clients too!

im thinking about just staying home for the rest of the yr and go back in jan.

[durhamjk1]

I am a high school special needs teacher.  I work with students with mild disabilites, so most of my students go to regular classes and I help with their work.  It's great.  

[Avanaar]

Jame and Feot ~ When I worked at a preschool, I got paid about $9/hour to work with 30+ 3 year olds ...or 25+ 2 year olds.  I loved what I did ...but I seriously thought I was underpaid!!  lol  ...and when I started there, I was at $7.50 - $8 (can't remember exactly).  Teachers are definitely getting jipped in the money department for all the stress they have to deal with ...even the ones who have their degrees and teach in the higher grades!

Right now, I'm a stay-at-home mom ...but I'm trying to get my in-home day care up and running.  I've had a lot of interviews, but no takers.  ; ;  Apparently, it's that first one that is the hardest ...after that, word of mouth and whatnot seems to take care of the rest!  lol  So I just keep plugging away ...hoping that *someone* gives me a chance!!

I pretty much will get to inform my customers (if I can get some before the baby's born! lol) that I want to take at least a month off before bringing their child back into my home for care.  I love the flexibility of still being able to do what I love (educating and caring for kids) while taking care of my own child as well ...and not having to leave home to do it!  =D

[laura1985]

nope. in the good old usa employers are not required to provide maternity leave for employees. a good majority of people here take the time off (because legally they cant fire you), but they do not get paid for it.

[Elyz1214]

I am an Emergency Dept RN. I work nights 7p-7a. For our maternity coversage, we have to use our vacation time for the first 2 weeks and then you can take up to 10 more weeks off at 60% pay. If you have the time-off saved up you can use it to adjunct the 60% if you want. I have enough to get 8 weeks off at 100% pay so that is likely all I will take.

It's becoming harder and harder to be a nurse in an Emergency Dept when you are pregnant. Not only can I not push stretchers with patients, but I try really hard *not* to take patients with potentially infectious problems i.e. shingles, meningitis, infectious mono. However, a lot of the time we don't know whats wrong with them until after I have been exposed. WHen we do and I ask another nurse if they would mind seeing that patient and I would take the next one, some people understand, some don't. The other day we had one with known mono and when I asked someone she rolls her eyes and said "this is an emergency dept everyone is sick, get over it" and went to tell the lead nurse I wasn't taking patients. (untrue, I offered to take ALL of the rest of hers in addition to the ones I already had). Ugh.